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List:       gentoo-portage-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] USE_EXPAND in profiles?
From:       Zac Medico <zmedico () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2016-03-31 4:07:46
Message-ID: 56FCA292.80500 () gentoo ! org
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On 03/30/2016 07:22 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 02:26 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
>> On 31 March 2016 at 01:49, Joakim Tjernlund
>> <Joakim.Tjernlund@infinera.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I am missing something?
>>> Generally I think that everything possible to do under /etc/portage should be
>>> doable under a profile as well.
>>
>> So after you ignore my other stuff:  Profiles are part of the PMS
>> specification, so any changes that go in there have to be EAPI
>> scheduled and cried over for a bit, and probably GLEPs and stuff also.
>>
>> I guess portage could informally support it prior to any such
>> specification materialising, but it would have to be forbidden in the
>> main tree until such a specification was defined, or the portage tree
>> would become PMS in-compatible.
> 
> Yes, exactly! There is no need to use non PMS compatible features in
> the gentoo tree.

We hide extensions like this behind profile-formats settings in
metadata/layout.conf. Please file a feature request bug for this at
bugs.gentoo.org.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac

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